LOCAL AGENDA 21 – LOCAL PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE ...

25GIURGIUprovisions on the functional planning, the new streetnetwork and location of utilities.Downtown, commercial and business centresA. Downtown areaConfinement of the downtown was based on severaloverlapping criteria for social and administrative landuse management:- Criteria on the existing constructions(historical, morphological, and esthetical);- Functional criteria with delimitationaccording to current procedures for a centralnuclei with commercial, business andadministrative functionality;- Social criteria resulting from integration ofopinions expressed in a survey conducted in1995.The downtown area will include three nuclei withpolarising functionality, as follows:- The cultural and historical nucleus fromUnion Square;- The financial and banking nucleus, partiallyredefined at the crossroads of CFRBoulevard and Bucharest Street;- The administrative nucleus at thecrossroads of Michael the Brave Boulevardand Bucharest Street, on the location of themilitary unit, land owned by state authoritiesthat could potentially go into publicadministration.The downtown is composed of five sub-zones withindividual specifics:- The Centre sub-zone has facilities located inthe central nucleus and dwellings P+1 –P+10E, S=43.88 ha;- The sub-zone of the Railway Station Streetwhich has facilities located in the preservedarea and dwellings P – P+2E, S=14.50 ha;- The sub-zone of Mircea the Old Street,which has facilities located in the centre anddwellings P – P+11E, S=14.30 ha;- The sub-zone of Nicolae Bălănescu – 1848Square which has facilities in the centre anddwellings P+1 – P+7E, S=5.97 ha;- The sub-zone of Dudului Street which hascentral utilities and dwellings P+2 – 4E,S=15.85ha.The downtown has an area of 94.5 ha and an indicatorof occupancy of 11.81 m 2 /inhabitant, a value slightlyabove the average in other big European cities.B. Commercial and business centresIt has been suggested that a nucleus with polarisingfunctionality for business be located on the zonecurrently owned by a production company, S.C.Consig S.A., with an area of 17.5 ha. This nucleus willadd to existing zones of interest and extend to theDanube, in direct connection with the Free TradeZone, and the passenger port. Another polarisingcentre for commercial activities is the area in front ofthe customs, which stretches over 33.1 ha.Zone for activitiesThese zones comprise of industrial parks, warehousesand agribusiness. Industries and Warehouses arelocated in the North, West and South platforms, overan area of 380.29 ha (18.92% of the built-in areas). Asthe result of decreasing productivity of someindustries, this land will become available for anotherfunctionality. Agribusiness has suffered in particular,and large companies changed functionality once theyclosed operations. The rest of the agricultural landwithin the built-in area has 190.50 ha and is currentlyleft for future development purposes. Agribusinesscompanies occupy 260.55 ha and have a share of12.09%.Zone for communications and transportZones with communications and transportinfrastructure overlap other functional zones,connecting one another. Zones for communicationsare divided as:• Motorways and respectiveinfrastructure176.13 ha;• Railroads and respectiveinfrastructure87.40 ha;• Navigable channels andinfrastructure3.50 ha.